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Strength and Grace are fundamentals of Great Yacht Design

Building HerWood: learning it:felling the treeshiver the helve, feeling the grainresist the saw, feeling for grainwith adze and chisel, feeling the plankrefuse a plane, the voyage of sapstill live in the fiber;joining wood:scarfing it, rabbeting keep and sternpost,matching a bevel, butting a jointor driving a trunnel:watever fastensthe grain, the grain lets in, and binds;let wood breathe or keep wood briny,wood will outlive generations:working wood, a man learns how wood works:wood comes and goeswith weather or waves; wood gives:come to find right grain for timbers,keelson, stem, a man can feel how wood remembers:the hull willtake to sea the way the tree knew wind.Philip Booth

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